Having recently decided to pay a bit more attention to my own health, I’ve been looking for motivation by studying the effects of inactivity and poor diet on the body. It really isn’t pretty. Blood sugar, which becomes harder to regulate in sedentary and overweight individuals, slowly rises with age, and begins to do serious damage to organs throughout the body. The eyes, kidneys, heart and nerves are at risk, to name a few. The body naturally slows down and function declines with age, but when a condition like diabetes develops things really start to fall apart — sometimes literally.
As I’ve looked at the numbers, I’ve come to the grim realization that the obesity epidemic – well-noted in the manosphere for its devastation of American women’s looks – will eventually come to depress not only our libidinous impulses, but quite possibly our economy as well. Some of the statistics suggest that half of Americans will be either diabetic or prediabetic (likely to develop the full-blown disease within a few years) by 2020, at a cost of half a trillion per year. And that’s only part of the toll of obesity…
When you think about the human misery and cost this represents, it highlights yet another of feminism’s most glaring moral failures: the fat acceptance movement. Usually, when we discuss the evils feminism has either caused or defended with full vigor, we think of the obvious ones, such as broken families, mass abortion, illegitimacy and the like. When obesity comes up, it’s usually to either mock the feminists themselves or gripe about the mammoth proportions of so many American women. We tend not to think about how much it will cost us down the road. However, now that we have a new healthcare tax, AKA Obamacare, it’s impossible to ignore the implications.
I’ve seen what diabetes can do to people: blindness, amputations, dialysis — the works. It’s a terrible affliction, and as I get older I find myself taking it very seriously. Hopefully, most of us can avoid it, but when I look around I’m not too optimistic. Another thing to think about is that many of the immigrants being brought in to care for the current crop of sick people are genetically at higher risk of developing obesity related diseases themselves. When they get sick, who is going to take care of them?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like there’s going to be an easy way out of this mess. We can’t blame feminists directly for the obesity epidemic; it’s a result of our lifestyle changing faster than the human genome can adapt. However, in promoting obesity as “acceptable” they are hampering efforts to address the problem while we still have a little time. The day of reckoning is approaching fast, and every day Americans get fatter is another day closer to a public health catastrophe. It’s time to stand up to the fat acceptance feminists and confront them over this critical issue.
